Chicago White Sox Walks + Hits / IP Leaders

Career totals with the White Sox and the best single seasons in club history. Records run through the 2025 season.

Ed Walsh holds the White Sox career record with 1.00 walks + hits / ip. The single-season record is 0.82, by Ed Walsh in 1910.

ERA W SO SV WHIP IP K/9 BB/9 K/BB SHO CG GS G L BB W-L%

Rate records use the league's own minimums: a season needs the standard 1.0 inning per team game with the club, a career 1,000+ innings pitched with the club.

All-time White Sox leaders

Career totals with the club

#	Player	With the club	WHIP	G
1	Ed Walsh	1904–1916	1.00	426
2	Chris Sale	2010–2016	1.06	228
3	Frank Smith	1904–1910	1.08	237
4	Reb Russell	1913–1919	1.08	242
5	Nick Altrock	1903–1909	1.08	180
6	Frank Owen	1903–1909	1.10	186
7	Doc White	1903–1913	1.11	360
8	Eddie Cicotte	1912–1920	1.11	353
9	Joe Benz	1911–1919	1.15	251
10	Roy Patterson	1901–1907	1.17	184
11	Jim Scott	1909–1917	1.18	317
12	Gary Peters	1959–1969	1.19	258
13	Joe Horlen	1961–1971	1.19	329
14	Dick Donovan	1955–1960	1.21	189
15	Tommy John	1965–1971	1.22	237
16	Wilbur Wood	1967–1978	1.23	578
17	Lefty Williams	1916–1920	1.23	183
18	Juan Pizarro	1961–1966	1.24	192
19	Jack McDowell	1987–1994	1.25	191
20	Jose Quintana	2012–2017	1.25	172
21	Billy Pierce	1949–1961	1.26	456
22	Mark Buehrle	2000–2011	1.28	390
23	Britt Burns	1978–1985	1.29	193
24	Alex Fernandez	1990–1996	1.29	199
25	Floyd Bannister	1983–1987	1.29	164

Single-season White Sox records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	WHIP	G
1	Ed Walsh	1910	0.82	45
2	Ed Walsh	1908	0.86	66
3	Doc White	1906	0.90	28
4	Eddie Cicotte	1917	0.91	49
5	Joe Horlen	1964	0.94	32
6	Ed Walsh	1909	0.94	31
7	Reb Russell	1916	0.94	56
8	Frank Smith	1909	0.95	51
9	Joe Horlen	1967	0.95	35
10	Frank Smith	1908	0.96	41
11	Frank Owen	1904	0.97	37
12	Chris Sale	2014	0.97	26
13	Eddie Fisher	1965	0.97	82
14	Ed Walsh	1906	0.98	41
15	Gary Peters	1966	0.98	30
16	Frank Owen	1905	0.99	42
17	Eddie Cicotte	1919	0.99	40
18	Wilbur Wood	1971	1.00	44
19	Doc White	1905	1.01	36
20	Doc White	1909	1.01	24
21	Ed Walsh	1907	1.01	56
22	LaMarr Hoyt	1983	1.02	36
23	Chris Sale	2016	1.04	32
24	Lucas Giolito	2020	1.04	12
25	Tommy John	1968	1.04	25